Eating Disorders

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d. Perfect diets often result as the wrong diets because food becomes an obsession, and an eating disorder is obtained. According the study of Boland, Laliberte, and Leichner (1999), the dieting behavior of a person reflects the family standards of self-restraint, success, and physical appearance. Family members tend to focus on and stress the appearances of their family members. This leads to dieting and may ultimately result in an eating disorder.
Eating disorders are not genetic, but individuals inherit traits and actions of the disorder. One influence is the way an individual’s family acts. Eating disorders seem genetic and environmental, but many other things influence them such as alcoholism, depression, drug use, obesity, panic disorders, socialism, and phobias.
A victim shows many signs that contribute to the process of an eating disorder. These individuals are obsessed with weight, foods, diets, and calories. The victims consume a lot of food, but never gains any weight, or they make up excuses for not eating. They may even divide food into sections of good or bad, and many go to the bathroom for a long time after meals. According to Barnhill and Taylor (1998), some visible signs include bloodshot eyes, swelling of the face (glands), more cavities, loss of hair, and paleness. These behaviors can go on for months or even years. Hunger begins to send messages to the brain of weakness, depression, and irritability.
Victims think that they gain from this disease. They think fasting provides a way to purify the body and gain identity, binging provides comfort, protection, and a relief from tension, and purging provides a way to let ou...